= Verse
babe, I can't find my way back home
I cant find no air to breathe
I can't find my way outta here
Lord it might be the death of me

Lord, I know that you need me home
the wheel in the sky is on fire
gonna say to me it's just a lie
when that something calls me out in the night

= Chorus
Gone are the times away
gone are the nights alone

I can see your light shine
it brings me back from the call of the wild

= Verse
Neon light burn holes in my eyes
moon screams out my name
lord I've been like a moth to the fire
I'm tuned into the call wild

Baby HELL YES I know
hard living’s not where I want to be
the price of what I think is being free
I don't know what calls me out into the night

= Chorus
Gone are the times away
gone are the nights alone

I can see your light shine
it brings me back from the call of the wild

= Verse
Now I know that I've always been home
I'm now awake from that lucid dream
the one that took the breath outta me
the one that scared the death outta me

Lord, I know that you got me home
I see the love in your eyes are on fire
I know that you are my burning light
your beauty called me back in from the night

= Chorus
Gone are the times away
gone are the nights alone

I can see your light shine
it brings me back from the call of the wild

To Love a Wild Fire

Can't Find My Way (Call Of The Wild)

= Verse 1
Makes no difference where I’m going
doesn’t really matter where I’ve been
When I feel her eyes upon me
I know, I’m exactly where I need to be

= Chorus 1
Home is where you make it
Sweet home should come easily
Could be on some distant beach where I'm a lying
Could beneath the shade of my baby’s tree

= Verse 2
I spent six years in NYC
like living in a penitentiary
Stole a motorbike rode it to the ocean
My broken heart finally came on back to me

= Chorus 2
Home lord, you’ve got to go out and take it
Sweet home should come easily
Could be on some highway that I’m riding
Could be left behind in those city streets

= Verse 3
I came to reside in California
Spend my days rolling at the beach
All the pretty girls there they let their hair down
they’ve got nothing on my sweet beauty

= Chorus 3
Home feels just like my woman
Does it fell good?! Lord you’d better believe
She comes & joins me anywhere I'm lying
She gives me shade beneath her tree

Come Easily

This song just started with a lick on my es 335 that was infectious. Rolling bass string riff, add bombastic bass and it didn’t take long till I put down a vocal skat track to hone in a melody. After the skat track, I wrote full lyrics, cut a finished track but it DID NOT resonate like the original stream of consciousness track, so I muted the bitch and mixed in the original take.
lyrics
= verse A
My guiding light
brothers & sisters tonight
I’ll tell you one thang
play some guitar sweet
baby move your feet
lord we’ll get this whole place swinging

= verse B
kiss of love to my sisters
a shout out to my brothers right now
tell you right now
if it all went south
happy to be right here with you BABE

= Chorus 1
This road is heavy
but I’ll find my way
Nothing but Dangerous Highway
credits

Ode To My Sisters & Brothers

Love Is a Terrible Thing to Waste
By The Ram (Key of C Major)(Harmonica Key of F)
© 2019 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED – THE RAM / OD SOUL, INC.


★ SONG LYRICS ★

Verse---------
Take to the street to play music
got my amplify
open guitar case
All of the hookers and hustlers
gonna make em move
where they congregate

Pro-stit-tutions illegal
but ya’d never know
by the look of this place
Mind you I’ve got no problem
cause I tell you LOVE 
is a terrible thing to waste

Chorus ---------
Ask me where I'm goin’
I'm a going way down town
Ask me what I’ll be up to
I say I'm a gonna spread a little love around

Verse---------
Playing myself some guitar 
a big old smile
right across my face
I’ve been out here for 3 hours
I think its time
to smoke a little jay

Inspiration she finds me
on crowded sidewalks
just about any place
When I'm with her I hold her so closely
cause I tell you LOVE 
is a terrible thing to waste

Chorus ---------
Ask me where I'm goin’
I'm a going way downtown
Ask me what I’ll be up to
I say Im a gonna spread a little love around

Love is a Terrible Thing to Waste

= Verse
Give me rock and rool music till the end of time
if I need to sell my soul ill be the first in line

Favorite tune blasting from the radio
Cant you hear me knocking by the Rolling Stones

Dance with me baby
hold me real close
the one I choose
the one i love the most

= Chorus
Baby show em how its done
hold me little chosen one
baby show en how its done


= Verse
Woke up this morning feeling no pain
my baby’s love hits me like the pouring rain

Here comes the evening watch my baby sway
beauty flows like some fine champagne

Hang with me baby
walk real close
the one I choose
the one i love the most

= Chorus
Baby show em how its done
hold me little chosen one
baby show en how its done


= Verse
Say now little baby don't you board that jet
I ain't half done with the whole of you yet

The full moon’s a GLOW It’s gonna wax & wane
saxophone playing by the subway train

My partner in crime
lets chase down so fun
hold you as tight as I can
my little chosen one

= Chorus
Baby show 'em how it's done
hold me little chosen one
baby show en how it's done

First In Line

By Moonlight We RIde

By Moonlight We Ride

Do It Right
By The Ram (Key of B Major)(Harmonica Key of E)
© 2022 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED – THE RAM / OD SOUL, INC.

★ ABOUT ★
This is the first take of a Carlsbad, California home studio live session recorded in early 2022.  We played the song two times, kept the drums and bass, then sparingly overdubbed the rest to achieve a sound true to our live performances.  

Hats off to the players here, one take and an instant pocket, spot on.  We stretched our legs and took extended solos.  It's why I love playing with these musicians.

★ SONG LYRICS ★
Shazaam

Get down, get down sun

No sight of the man on the interstate
Spent a mess of time truckin' on the road today
I got a one-way ticket babe, the diesel down
And I'm blowing off some doors as I pass each town
As I pass each town, as I pass each town
As I pass each town, laying that diesel down
Going down, going down

Let me tell you
Yeah, oh yeah
If you're gonna do it, do it right
Grab your little woman, treat her right
If you're gonna do it, do it right
Grab your little woman, treat her right
Get down, going down

Like a shotgun kick, I move as fast as I can
Yes that's the signature style of a do right man
And I know every action means the word to you
That's why I'm trucking this load to bring the goods to you
Bring the goods to you, bring the goods to you
Bring the goods to you, baby bring the good to you

I say yeah, yeah
If you're gonna do it, do it right
Grab your little woman, baby treat her right
If you're gonna do it, do it right
Grab your little woman, treat her right

Bring it down
I know it's late at night, but I need to know
Just what kind of love you've got in store
I know outside is just a drizzling, drizzling rain
So won't you start a fire in your hearth again
In your hearth again, in your hearth again
In your hearth again, light a fire in your hearth again

Yeah, yeah
If you're gonna do it, do it right
Grab your little woman, treat her right
If you're gonna do it, do it right
Grab your little woman, treat her right

Just like I told you
If you're gonna do it, do it right
Grab your little woman, treat her right
Get down, get down

Do It Right

Do It Right (Extended Play)

Do It Right (Alt Take)

Do It Right
By The Ram (Key of B Major)(Harmonica Key of E)
© 2022 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED – THE RAM / OD SOUL, INC.

★ ABOUT ★
This is the second take of a Carlsbad, California home studio live session recorded in early 2022.  We played the song two times, kept the drums and bass, then sparingly overdubbed the rest to achieve a sound true to our live performances.  

After the first take, the band was firing on all cylinders.  I chose this as the single release because it moves and grooves so well from start to finish.

★ SONG LYRICS ★
Ummm, that's what I'm talking about

Get after the sun, get after the sun
Get after the sun, get after the sun
Get after it, get, get after it
Get after it, get, get after it
Get after it, get, get after it

No sight of the man on the interstate
Spent a mess of time truckin' on the road today
I got a one-way ticket babe, the diesel down
And I'm blowing off some doors as I pass each town
As I pass each town, as I pass each town
As I pass each town, laying that diesel down
Going down, down, going down

Let me tell you
If you're gonna do it, do it right
Grab your little woman, baby treat her right
If you're gonna do it, do it right
Grab your little woman, treat her right
Shore as you're born

Let me tell you
Get after it, get, get after it
Get after it, get, get after it
Get after it, get, get after it

Like a shotgun kick, I move as fast as I can
Yes that's the signature style of a do right man
I know every action means the word to you
That's why I'm trucking this load to bring the goods to you
Bring the goods to you, bring the goods to you
Bring the goods to you, baby bring the good to you

If you're gonna do it, do it right
Grab your little woman, baby treat her right
If you're gonna do it, do it right
Grab your sweetheart, treat her right

Bring it down, baby
Down, down, down
Down, down, down
Bring it down

Well, it's late at night, but I need to know
Just what kind of love you've got in store
I know outside is just a drizzling rain
So won't you start a fire in that hearth again
In your hearth again, in your hearth again
In your hearth again, light a fire in your hearth again

I say yeah, I say yeah
If you're gonna do it, do it right
Grab your little woman, baby treat her right
If you're gonna do it, do it right
Grab your little woman, treat her right

Get down, do it right

Do It Right
By The Ram (Key of B Major)(Harmonica Key of E)
© 2022 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED – THE RAM / OD SOUL, INC.

★ ABOUT ★
This is the first take of a Carlsbad, California home studio live session recorded in early 2022.  Every time I release a single, I make sure to also provide an instrumental mix that pulls out the vocals and highlights the players.

This mix has an extended outro along with a separate saxophone take based on the vocal melody.  The intended audience for the instrumental mix is for sync placement in film and media.

Do It Right (Instrumental)

The influences that flow through the Ram's music are as indiscriminate as the places he's called home over the past half a century.  Born in Pittsburgh, PA, farm-raised southwest of Philadelphia, high school in upstate New York by the Vermont border, young adulthood in 1990s NYC, called to the Pacific Ocean in 1999, in love with the Eastern Sierras in 2017.

Motion and wanderlust have always been a constant.  Working with different sounds, technologies, instrumentations, arrangements, engineers, musicians.  No one preferred genre, no one preferred guitar or harmonica.  Just a driving heartbeat, a feel, a groove behind an articulate human voice.  

A badass soundtrack for life.

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